Comparing Everpure (P) & Its Rivals

Everpure (NYSE:P) is one of 82 public companies in the “Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals” industry, but how does it compare to its competitors? We will compare Everpure to similar companies based on the strength of its institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, risk, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Profitability

This table compares Everpure and its competitors’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Everpure	5.94%	19.06%	5.89%
Everpure Competitors	-113.07%	-29.37%	7.35%

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Everpure and its competitors top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Net Income	Price/Earnings Ratio
Everpure	$3.66 billion	$188.18 million	152.75
Everpure Competitors	$25.41 billion	$3.72 billion	5.95

Everpure’s competitors have higher revenue and earnings than Everpure. Everpure is trading at a higher price-to-earnings ratio than its competitors, indicating that it is currently more expensive than other companies in its industry.

Risk and Volatility

Everpure has a beta of 1.43, meaning that its stock price is 43% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Everpure’s competitors have a beta of 1.75, meaning that their average stock price is 75% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings for Everpure and its competitors, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Everpure	1	2	18	1	2.86
Everpure Competitors	1112	4392	7801	379	2.54

Everpure presently has a consensus price target of $148.65, suggesting a potential upside of 33.31%. As a group, “Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals” companies have a potential upside of 59.43%. Given Everpure’s competitors higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Everpure has less favorable growth aspects than its competitors.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

83.4% of Everpure shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.5% of shares of all “Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals” companies are held by institutional investors. 5.1% of Everpure shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.9% of shares of all “Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals” companies are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Everpure beats its competitors on 7 of the 13 factors compared.

Everpure Company Profile

Pure Storage, Inc. provides data storage technologies, products, and services in the United States and internationally. The company’s Purity software is shared across its products and provides enterprise-class data services, such as data reduction, data protection, and encryption, as well as storage protocols, including block, file, and object. Its products portfolio includes FlashArray for block-oriented storage, addressing databases, applications, virtual machines, and other traditional workloads; FlashArray//XL; and FlashArray//C, an all-QLC flash array. The company also provides FlashBlade, a solution for unstructured data workloads of various types; FlashStack that combines compute, network, and storage to provide an infrastructure platform; FlashRecover, an all-flash modern data-protection solution; and AIRI, a full-stack AI-ready infrastructure. In addition, it offers evergreen storage subscription, Pure as-a-Service, and Cloud Block Store, as well as Portworx a cloud-native Kubernetes data management solution It also offers technical and professional, training and education, and certification services. The company sells its products and subscription services through direct sales force and channel partners. The company was formerly known as OS76, Inc. and changed its name to Pure Storage, Inc. in January 2010. Pure Storage, Inc. was incorporated in 2009 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California.